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161. Harley MS 5423

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 5423
Title:
Giovanni Boccaccio, Fiametta
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-191v: Giovanni Boccaccio, Fiametta.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Italian
Date Range:
16th century
Extent:
1 volume

162. Harley MS 5426

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 5426
Title:
Thomas Waleys, Commentary on Augustine's De Civitate Dei; table of contents and index for Gregory the Great, Moralia in Iob; table of contents for Paterius, Liber de expositioneveteris ac novi testamenti
Scope & Content:
This composite manuscript consists of two parts (ff. 1-106; and ff. 107-213) that were separately produced, and joined together at a later stage, probably in the Harleian library. The first part of the manuscript appears to have been written in an Italian script; the second part was most likely ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
14th century
Extent:
1 volume

163. Harley MS 5427

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 5427
Title:
Boccaccio, Elegia della Madonna Fiammeta
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains a copy of the Elegia della Madonna Fiammeta (Elegy of Lady Fiammetta), a work by the Italian poet Giovanni Boccaccio, probably written between 1343 and 1344. The text is written in the form of a first-person monologue and details the love of its protagonist the Lady Fiam...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Italian
Date Range:
4th quarter of the 15th century-1st quarter of the 16th century
Extent:
1 volume

164. Harley MS 5428

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 5428
Title:
Cicero, Orationes; Philippicae
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains copies of works by the Roman statesman Marcus Tullius Cicero (b, 103, d. 43 BC): his Orationes (Speeches) and Philippicae (Philippics). The text features accompanying marginalia in Italian hands that have been dated to the 16th and 17th centuries (Watson, Catalogue of ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1469-1470
Extent:
1 volume

165. Harley MS 5747

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 5747
Title:
Cicero, De Amicitia, De Senectute, and Paradoxica Stoicorum
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains three works of the Roman statesman and philosopher Marcus Tullius Cicero (b. 106 BC, d. 43 BC): De Amicitia (On Friendship), De Senectute (On Old Age), and Paradoxica Stoicorum (Stoic Paradoxes). Contents: ff. 1r-21v: Cicero, De Amicitia; ff. 22r-40v: Cicero, De Se...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Greek, Modern and Latin
Date Range:
Middle of the 15th century
Extent:

1 volume

166. Harley MS 6327

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 6327
Title:
Cicero, Academica
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains a copy of Academica, an epistemological work by the Roman statesman and philosopher Marcus Tullius Cicero (b. 106, d. 43 BC). Contents: ff. 1r-6v: Cicero, Academica priora; ff. 7r-34v: Cicero, Academica posteriora. Decoration: Inhabited initials in colours and go...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1st half of the 16th century
Extent:
1 volume

167. Harley MS 6328

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 6328
Title:
Alexander of Villedieu, Doctrinale Puerorum, with gloss commentary
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-2r: Gloss to the Doctrinale Puerorum. f. 2v: Short tracts, including a list of the Nine Orders of Angels; a poem for calculating the calends on each month, beginning: 'Sex Maius nonas, October, Julius, et Mars / Quattuor at reliqui: tenet ydus quilibet octo'; and Colucius Sa...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
15th century
Extent:
1 volume

168. Harley MS 6329

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 6329
Title:
Gaius Marius Victorinus, Commentary on Cicero's De inventione
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-50r: Gaius Marius Victorinus, Commentary on Cicero's De inventione. The manuscript contains a later addition: f. 1r: Marginal notes on Victorinus; added in the 15th century. f. i verso: Title inscription in pencil: 'Fabii Victorini Commentari in M. T. Ciceronis Rhetor[…]s'...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
c 1400-1458
Extent:
1 volume

169. Harley MS 6455

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 6455
Title:
Collection of Italian poetry, including 'Ragionamento della poesia di M. Bernardo Tasso' (printed book, 1562), and a poem on Naples by Ioan Bernardino Fuscano (printed book, 1531)
Scope & Content:
This composite manuscript contains printed and handwritten texts relating to Italian poetry. Contents: ff. 2r-17r: A printed book with a decorated frontispiece: 'Ragionamento della poesia di M. Bernardo Tasso - Con Privilegio'; printed in Venice by Gabriel Giolito de' Ferrari, 1562. ff. 18...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Italian
Date Range:
c 1531-c 1572
Extent:
1 volume

170. Harley MS 6511

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 6511
Title:
'Nota sex tantum casus', a treatise adapted from Raymond of Peñafort's Summa de casibus poenitentiae
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 5r-50v: 'Nota sex tantum casus', a Latin treatise adapted from Raymond of Peñafort's Summa de casibus poenitentiae. The manuscript contains various additions: ff. 1r-1v: An exposition on the mass, beginning 'Missa ideo [sic] vocatur quia missa est pro nobis hostia ad deum placa...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Italian and Latin
Date Range:
1st half of the 14th century
Extent:
1 volume